Get last field using awk substr
Use the fact that awk
splits the lines in fields based on a field separator, that you can define. Hence, defining the field separator to /
you can say:
awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' input
as NF
refers to the number of fields of the current record, printing $NF
means printing the last one.
So given a file like this:
/home/parent/child1/child2/child3/filename
/home/parent/child1/child2/filename
/home/parent/child1/filename
This would be the output:
$ awk -F"/" '{print $NF}' file
filename
filename
filename
In this case it is better to use basename
instead of awk
:
$ basename /home/parent/child1/child2/filename
filename
If you're open to a Perl solution, here one similar to fedorqui's awk solution:
perl -F/ -lane 'print $F[-1]' input
-F/
specifies /
as the field separator$F[-1]
is the last element in the @F
autosplit array
Another option is to use bash
parameter substitution.
$ foo="/home/parent/child/filename"
$ echo ${foo##*/}
filename
$ foo="/home/parent/child/child2/filename"
$ echo ${foo##*/}
filename